[Gllug] ADSL Woes

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 04:05:12PM +0100, Matthew King wrote:
> > I am running a recent 2.4 kernel with the open source Benoit (?)
> > driver, but would be happy to change if needed.
> >
> > Has anyone got any perls of wisdome for me ?
> 
> I have a similar situation - The gateway at work has one of these UFOs and
> I'm not always there to repair it.
> 
> I've told the muppets there to just reset the box to solve all the
> problems, but I need to make one of these scripts too for obvious reasons.
> 
> I owuld probably periodically ping my ppp peer and if that goes dead
> reload. In fact it'd probably be better to ping some remote hosts like
> google.co.uk and debian.org. Also your nameserver might be a good idea
> too.

Pinging the ppp peer is the sensible thing to do - it tests that the ADSL
line is up & running; if it isn't then an ADSL reset/reload needs to be done.

Pinging somewhere else involves testing the ISP's connectivity, if that is
screwed - there is nothing that my machine can do -- other than raise an alert
so that I can 'phone to complain.

It is this ADSL reset/reload that I want to achieve via a script.

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